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Now that Operation Top Kill has been deemed a failure and BP has abandoned the effort, billowing black crude can be seen once again entering the Gulf via the oil spill cam. The Herald, via AP, reports on the next effort to staunch the flow, a plan “to use robot submarines to cut off the damaged riser, and then try to cap it with a containment valve. The effort is expected to take between four and seven days.''

Is it just me, or does the image not resemble the smoke monster which came rushing out of the cave once the plug was removed in ‘Lost'? And who will the Gulf oil spill possess?

Boston Herald staff today round out coverage with a look at how local residents and members of the Coast Guard are joining in the response. Among local responders is “Jeffrey Warren, a 26-year-old MIT grad student, has traveled to New Orleans twice in the past two weeks to test an aerial photography method that captures before-and-after images of the spill.''

The AP last has moved a story about the changing estimates of oil spill's size and how it relates to BP's credibility on the oil spill. Read Green World's entry on the subject here.

A recent NASA photo shows distribution of the oil slick as of last week.

Oil extends to the north and east of the main body of the slick. A small, dark plume along the edge of the slick, not far from the original location of the Deepwater Horizon rig, indicates a possible controlled burn of oil on the ocean surface. May 24.

Here's a view of the live cam, so you can compare to the smoke monster.